Yana Yunusova

Yana Yunusova, PhD

Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI)

Research Division Head, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (TRI)

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Keywords: stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), speech motor control, neurodegeneration, Parkinson disease, speech rehabilitation, dysarthria, apraxia

Yana Yunusova, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at University of Toronto, an Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.

Dr. Yunusova's research is focused on understanding the effects of neurologic disease on speech production. At present, her research program is composed of three independent but related themes. The first theme is focused on issues of early diagnosis and subtyping of the bulbar form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The second theme is devoted to the study of neuroanatomical underpinnings of motor control and cognitive deterioration in bulbar ALS. The third is concentrated on the development of new movement-based treatment methods, using visual feedback, for treating motor speech disorders. In addition to conducting research, she teaches at the graduate level in the area of motor speech disorders.

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Slowed articulation rate is a sensitive diagnostic marker for identifying non-fluent primary progressive aphasia.

Aphasiology. 2017;31(2):241-260

Cordella C, Dickerson BC, Quimby M, Yunusova Y, Green JR

Cutting-Edge Technology for Speech Rehabilitation.

J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2017 Jun 22;60(6S):1798-1799

Campbell TF, Yunusova Y

Game-Based Augmented Visual Feedback for Enlarging Speech Movements in Parkinson's Disease.

J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2017 Jun 22;60(6S):1818-1825

Yunusova Y, Kearney E, Kulkarni M, Haworth B, Baljko M, Faloutsos P

The diagnostic utility of patient-report and speech-language pathologists' ratings for detecting the early onset of bulbar symptoms due to ALS.

Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2017 Mar 29;:1-9

Allison KM, Yunusova Y, Campbell TF, Wang J, Berry JD, Green JR

The Neuropathological Signature of Bulbar-onset ALS: A Systematic Review.

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017 Feb 02;:

Shellikeri S, Karthikeyan V, Martino R, Black SE, Zinman L, Keith J, Yunusova Y

Assessing cognitive functioning in ALS: A focus on frontal lobe processes.

Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2016 Dec 08;:1-11

Gillingham SM, Yunusova Y, Ganda A, Rogaeva E, Black SE, Stuss DT, Zinman L

Speech Movement Measures as Markers of Bulbar Disease in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2016 Sep 27;:1-13

Shellikeri S, Green JR, Kulkarni M, Rong P, Martino R, Zinman L, Yunusova Y

Predicting Speech Intelligibility Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Based on the Deterioration of Individual Speech Subsystems.

PLoS One. 2016;11(5):e0154971

Rong P, Yunusova Y, Wang J, Zinman L, Pattee GL, Berry JD, Perry B, Green JR

Validation of Clinical Observations of Mastication in Persons with ALS.

Dysphagia. 2016 Jan 23;

Simione M, Wilson EM, Yunusova Y, Green JR

Profiling Speech and Pausing in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).

PLoS One. 2016;11(1):e0147573

Yunusova Y, Graham NL, Shellikeri S, Phuong K, Kulkarni M, Rochon E, Tang-Wai DF, Chow TW, Black SE, Zinman LH, Green JR

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